AOSD is a novel programming paradigm that aims at a better separation of concerns. AOSD emerged from the academic world in the late nineties and experiences a significant acceptance by industry. The topics covered in the course are:

• Separation Of Concerns and AOSD
• Aspect-Oriented Programming in AspectJ
• Case study: Design Patterns in AOP
• Framework-based AOP approaches
• Case study: Aspects in Enterprise Software
• Current research topics in AOSD

This course organization includes:

• regular lectures
• exercises and mandatory assignments
• a research paper is assigned to each student and in an exam workshop this paper must be presented to peers followed by a critical discussion.

The evaluation therefore consists of the following parts:

• Exercises assignments, deadlines must be respected
• Enterprise AOP project
• Presentation and participation in the discussions during the AOSD research workshops

Both project and exercises must be done individually.

• In-depth knowledge of object oriented programming
• Knowledge of JAVA